Its all about the bags (..and the needle rolls...and some more bags )

I have been trying to blog about these for weeks but things keep getting in the way but today nothing is going to stop me, its all about the bags around here at the moment.

At the end of June I am going to the Lakes for a weekend to help KraftyKoala sell her yummy yarn at Woolfest and I am also going to be taking up some of my needle rolls and bags and stuff.

Its all a bit nerve-racking; I've never been to Woolfest and I haven't a clue if anyone will even want my bags and stuff and what will they want and what designs? Haha can you see my paranoia spiralling out of control already?

I have decided that if I go expecting to sell nothing then anything I do sell will be a bonus, right?

So here we are, here are some of my recent creations. You have to excuse the photography. I am seriously considering asking my photographer friend to come and help me take pics for my website because you need about ten hands to get the bags to look how you want them to and then I have no blank canvas so I have to take pics with the mess of the kids bedroom or the lovely woodchip wallpaper as a background.

Anyway, bags......

This is my new baby, the zippy project bag. It needs a bit of refining because I'm not completely happy with the inside of it and I need a handle on it but its the first zip I ever put in something and it works so yay!!

This is one of the handbaggy bags. I use these for everything, for every day, for taking things to knitting. They can hold loads of stuff and stilll look cool ;)

I've improved the design since I started making them and they now have an inside pocket to hold all those things that you don't want to loose at the bottom of your Mary Poppins bag. Yay! No more lost keys when its chucking it down with rain and I'm trying to get in the house

In preperation for Woolfest, I am making up little sets of big bag, project bag, dpn roll and main needle roll, all in the same fabrics if anyone wants to buy sets. Here is a set minus its big needle roll...

I've got loads more needle rolls, bags and various other goodies but that it for show and tell today!!

Funky feet!

I have been a grumpy cowbag for ooooh at least a fortnight now. I am putting it down to a mega dose of PMT and I am pissing myself off with my grumpyness which I try to hide from the rest of the family coz its no fun when Mummys are grumpy is it? I never used to get PMT until I had kids and I hate to use it is an 'excuse' for my bad moods but seriously, what the hell else can it be? I want to be locked away in a room on my own and be allowed out when my head can play nice again. I get so mad for no apparent reason that its like having a ball of anger growing bigger and bigger inside of me before it explodes onto the poor soul who happens to annoy me at exactly the wrong time.

On Sunday, I decided that to cheer myself up and because I had been frugal girl for weeks now, I would treat myself to some Birks in time for the Baby Show at the NEC that I am working at all this weekend. After lots of looking around, I decided that I would buy them from Amazon, not because they were the cheapest but because they had that express delivery, guaranteed next day joby so I would have them in time for Thursday because I leave at 5am on Friday morning.
So, yesterday I stayed in in the morning, my little sis came round for a cuppa and got encouraged to stay for the afternoon so she could stay in while I picked L up from pre-school but the postman didn't show up. Of course, that fueled my crappy mood even more as did M when he came home, wound the kids up then retreated to his office to do some work and left me with hyper children while I was trying to make tea.

Anyway, this morning, just as I was giving up any hope of seeing my sandles and convinced that I would hate them anyway, Mr Postman showed up with these.....

Ignore my feet, ew, and stubbly legs (its cold here this week). Just appreciate the shoes....or alternativley tell me that I have now officially joined the hippy/old lady club. Any comments, I don't mind ;)

They were serving to lighten my mood this morning until I went out to pic L up from preschool. She came running over the me, looked at my shoes and said;

'Mummy, you've got new shoes!'
to which I asked her if she liked them?
'No, I don't. I need new shoes now though!'